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[[File:cit_fate_stay_night_are_you_my_master.jpg|link=Summoning Ritual|frame|''I ask of you: Are you my master?'']]
{{quote|''[[Field of Blades|My body is made out of swords.]]
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There exists a [[The Lifestream|plane outside of human concepts]], and within there is the Throne of Heroes. Here, the records of the brave men and women whose lives have become legends are kept, to be used as eternal guardians of mankind. [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|The definition of "hero" is broad]] -- [[Protagonist-Centered Morality|even the ruthless and heartless are the heroes of their own tales]].
In '''''Fate/stay night''''', when a legend is venerated enough by humanity, they can become a [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Heroic Spirit that surpasses time itself]]. [[Summoning Ritual|There is a ritual]] where seven Spirits can ally with
As each Servant falls, the Holy Grail receives their power, [[There Can Only Be One|until only one remains]], and the Grail is ready to grant the winners' wishes. The Holy Grail War that results in this has happened before, with a great cost of human lives, all for that one wish granted by the Grail.
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''Fate/stay night'' is a PC [[Eroge]] [[Visual Novel]] created by the company Type-Moon, and is set in the [[Nasuverse]], an overarching [[Multiverse]] franchise which includes ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''. The game [[Multiple Endings|has three different storylines]]: "''Fate''", which focuses on Saber, "''Unlimited Blade Works''", which focuses on Rin and Archer, and "''Heaven's Feel''", which focuses on Sakura.
Although [[No Export for You|never released in English]], the game has a [[Fan Translation]] patch made for it by the good folks at [https://web.archive.org/web/20140210062345/http://mirrormoon.org/ Mirror Moon]. The [[Visual Novel]] has been adapted for [[PlayStation 2]] and, while replacing the H-scenes that were in the original game with alternate, non-erotic versions, add some content like new CGs and new musiques. The [[PlayStation 2]] version is subtitled ''Realta Nua'' and you can implement the extra content from this version on your PC version [http://rnpatch.blogspot.com/ with this patch].
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* A [[Prequel]] exists in the form of ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', with an [[Animated Adaptation]] by anime studio [[Ufotable]] which premiered during [[Fall 2011 Anime|Fall 2011]]. It's the story of the Fourth Holy Grail War, [[When It All Began|the conclusion of which has affected the lives of every]] ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' [[When It All Began|major characters]]. Reading ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' implies you have finished reading the original [[Visual Novel]], so beware of spoilers for ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' on all ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' pages.
* A [[Sequel|sequel/fan-disc]], ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'', was released in 2005. [[Lighter and Softer|A much more lighthearted story]] that's mainly character driven, the events focus on the mysteriously [[Groundhog Day Loop|repeating four day cycle]] that Fuyuki City is trapped in, half a year after the events of the first game, and how the daily lives of all the characters are with no war as a backdrop. Although it is a very long way from being completed, a [[Fan Translation]] project is currently being worked on [
* ''[[Fate/Apocrypha]]'', a light novel by Yuichiro Higashide that ran between 2012 and 2014, centering around a 14-Servant Grail War in an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Third Grail War went differently than in canon so the events of ''Fate/Zero'' and ''Fate/stay night'' never took place. This project was originally pitched as an MMORPG, but never took off; many of the ideas were rehashed for ''Fate/Grand Order''. An anime adaptation by [[A-1 Pictures]] was premiered in July 2017
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* Furthermore, there are several more [[Video Game|video games]]:
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** ''Fate/tiger colosseum'' (and its expansion ''Fate/tiger colosseum UPPER'') is a PSP-exclusive 3D [[Fighting Game]] and [[Parody|a lighthearted parody]] of the series (with some [[The Cameo|appearances]] by ''[[Tsukihime]]'' characters).
** ''[[Fate Extra|Fate/EXTRA]]'' is an [[RPG]] for the PSP who takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the near future]] [[Cyberspace|inside a large, virtual environment]] known as the SE.RA.PH. It has a sequel/companion of sorts in ''Fate/Extra CCC'' (
** ''[[Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star|Fate/Extella]]'' (who has the added subtitle ''The Umbral Star'' for its western release), an [[Action RPG]] released in 2016 and 2017 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch and Windows, serving as a actual sequel for the events of ''Fate/EXTRA''. It has a sequel of its own announced for 2018.
** ''Fate/Grand Order'', a free-to-play MMRPG for mobile devices, co-developed with Aniplex and released in 2015. In the present time, the Chaldea Security Organization, an association who protect humanity, discovers that its recorded possibles futures have disappeared and human extinction is becoming imminent, a disaster whose origin can be traced to an event that took place in Fuyuki in 2004. In response, they quickly develop time travel technology to deal with the problem and keep protecting humanity's continued existence. The player is a Master who was given the ability to summon servants and is tasked with finding time-space anomalies that may cause human extinction and destroy them. The plot took ideas from the ill-fated ''Fate/Apocrypha'' proposal, but it's essentially its own thing. The gameplay is a mix of tactical action RPG for combats, a gacha game for obtaining servants, and a visual-novelseque interaction with the servants to maxing up its states and discover its backstory. An anime film adaptation by Lay-duce, titled ''Fate/Grand Order: First Order'', was released on December 31, 2016.
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== A-D ==
* [[
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
** The manga adds [[Fan Service|a short scene of Taiga in her high school days, Rin taking a shower and Souichirou Kuzuki's backstory]].
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** {{spoiler|[[Tsukihime|Zelretch]]}} appears in the [[Multiple Endings|True End]] of ''Heaven's Feel'' in order to save Rin (one of his "pupils", {{spoiler|who had used the second magic}}) from being tried and perhaps even executed by the [[Magical Society|Assocation]].
* [[Character Alignment]] - [[Invoked Trope|Canonical alignments in the status pages]]. These tend to be points of contention among the [[Fandom]], particularily {{spoiler|Gilgamesh's}}. It's worth noting, though, that they're from the perspective of the Grail, which has a rather... [[Blue and Orange Morality|unusual]] way of seeing the world.
* [[Character Blog]] - For April Fools 2010, many [[Nasuverse|Type-Moon]] characters appeared on "[http://tatari.110mb.com/tmfools/10/ Tmitter]{{Dead link}}". Unfortunately, it's in Japanese, but a quick visit to Google Translate should give you the general idea if you don't know any. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108191141/http://nrvnqsr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5782 Beast's Lair] also seems to have translated at least some of the tweets.
{{quote|Saber {{spoiler|Alter}}: [Shirou], Lunch. [[Gratuitous English|NOW!]] <munch> Like always, your food is terrible.}}
* [[Character Filibuster]] - Kirei Kotomine is physically incapable of entering and exiting a scene without at least a few dozen pages' worth of [[Mr. Exposition|exposition]], [[Contemplate Our Navels|philosophical contemplation]] or [[Hannibal Lecture|cruel mind games]] in between. Usually, all three at the same time, or at least two out of them at the same time, depending on the length of the scene. He gets called on it after a while. This is justified in the eyes of many by Kotomine's [[Joji Nakata|voice actor]], whose voice can be listened to for hours.
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* [[Cooldown Hug]] - As she can't quite bring herself to deliver the fatal strike, {{spoiler|Rin gives one of these to Sakura}} at the end of their battle in ''Heaven's Feel'' instead.
* [[The Corruption]] - {{spoiler|The contents of the current Grail, since the Third Grail War.}}
* [[Crossover]] - ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]]'' features a crossover between ''Fate'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' where Rin summons Nanoha and Fate as her Archers (and [[Brick Joke|Archer is summoned by Yuuno]]).
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]] - The events of the Third Grail War are pretty vague; pretty much all that is known is that the Edelfelts summoned good and evil versions of the same Saber and that the Einzberns summoned Avenger.
* [[Cue the Sun]] - ''Fate'' and ''Unlimited Blade Works'' route endings both use this.
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* [[Expy]] - We found some ressemblances between ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' characters and olders Nasu's works. For more precision, see the [[Fate/stay night/Characters|Characters Pages]].
* [[Fan Service]] - The movie is just less than two hours of pure [[Fan Service]] to those already familiar with ''Unlimited Blade Works''. If you haven't played the route, the movie will make absolutely no sense, have flat characters and feel rushed. [[Rule of Cool|If you have, you get to see everyone being awesome at the expense of skipping some scenes used to build the route's actual conflict]]. There's very little in the way of the other kind of service in any medium despite ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' starting its life as an [[Eroge]], except for the occasional [[Male Gaze]].
* [[Fan Translation]] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20140210062345/http://mirrormoon.org/ Mirror Moon] provides a patch to the original game (you have to get the actual game yourself) to fully translate it.
* [[Field of Blades]] - {{spoiler|''[[Title Drop|Unlimited Blade Works]]''}}.
* [[Field Power Effect]]
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* [[Gas Leak Coverup]] - A number of non-fatal incidents around the town {{spoiler|(caused by Caster's efforts gathering mana)}} are attributed to gas leaks.
* [[Gender Bender]] - In the prototype storyline that Nasu apparently wrote in his college days, Saber was male and Saber's master was a female named Sajyou Ayaka. All changes in female Saber's background were likely due to the fact she is now the main heroine of an [[Eroge]] game.
* [[Good Bad Translation]] - One overly-literal fansub had Shirou saying "[[Captain Obvious|People die if they are killed]]" with an ultra-serious look on his face<ref>This is a legitimate idiom in Japanese, usually as a statement about how tough someone is that they won't die even if you kill them, [[Quote Mine|but makes little sense out of context]].</ref> A screenshot of this sub is now a [[
** A lesser-known fansub had the same line, though followed up with "plain and simple", instead of "...that's the way it should be" in the commonly screencapped version. The official subtitles and English dub have the more-logical but less-memorable line, "If people are injured badly enough, they die. That's the way it should be.".
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
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* [[Gorn]] - The game borders on it at times... and then the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' movie takes a flying leap into it and keeps going.
* [[Gotterdammerung]] - Modern Magecraft vs. [[Older Is Better|the Age of Gods]].
* [[Grail Quest]]: Actively [[Defied Trope|defied]] by the Holy Grail Wars in ''Fate/stay night'' and the other various ''Fate'' works. The Grail cares nothing about the Masters seeking it except that the winner has defeated all the others in what amounts to a brutal tournament. And while the best results are gained by ''killing'' all one's competition, it's not mandatory -- the Grail doesn't care about ''anything'' save that there is only a single winner standing at the end. {{spoiler|Then again, it's hinted that it is not the ''true'' Grail, but an ersatz version created by mages in the distant past, and one already corrupted by the time it appears onscreen at that.}}
* [[Gratuitous English]] - ''Unlimited Blade Works'' {{spoiler|and the [[Title Drop]] Noble Phantasm are examples of [[Gratuitous English]]. Archer's Noble Phantasm [[Invocation]] makes great deviations between the accurate translation from the Japanese text and the Japanese "translation" that accompanies it in the game.}}
* [[Gratuitous German]] - A lot of Rin's spells are in really strange German, for example ''"Neun, Acht, Sieben, Stil Schießen, Beschießen, Erschießen!"''<ref>[[Blind Idiot Translation|"Nine, Eight, Seven, Style Shooting, Shelling, Shooting!"]].</ref>
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*** Shirou is quite blunt in asking his best friend Issei to remove his school uniform. And Issei, for his part, was strangely okay with it. Not to mention Issei's general dislike of women...
** ''Heaven's Feel'' Route
*** ''Rin x Mitsuzuri'' ([[Bleached Underpants|Censored PS2 version only]]): The substitute [[Erotic Dream]]. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526221249/http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/ffc143cacc06374d8954d48e70aa0634.jpg here].
*** ''Sakura x Rin''
*** {{spoiler|''Sakura x Rider''}}: One of the few remaining Servants who [[I Choose to Stay|chooses to stay with her Master]].
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** Servants can recover magical energy by draining the prana of humans. Depending on how much they drain, the process is either highly draining or outright fatal to the human in question. Both {{spoiler|Rider and Caster, who lack Masters capable of granting them magical energy, do this. Gilgamesh has rank A independent action and a physical body and doesn't need to do it to stay alive, but has spent the last 10 years [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|draining the orphans in Kotomine's basement]] in order to stockpile magical energy for repeated Gates of Babylon-usage.}}
** {{spoiler|The Holy Grail's power comes from absorbing the souls of the heroic spirits who died in the war.}}
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: Gilgamesh is disgusted with modern mankind because he believes that we are weak compared to how things were back in his day. Because of the [[Older Is Better]] nature of magic in the Nasuverse, he might actually be right.
* [[Humiliation Conga]] - Happens to Shinji a good few times in various routes.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] - Servants can have their Noble Phantasm coming out of thin air. [[Justified]] by the Holy Grail War system. {{spoiler|A more litteral example would be Gilgamesh's Gates of Babylon.}}
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Luminescent Blush]] - Among others, the three main heroines, Saber, Rin and Sakura, are prone to this.
== M-R ==
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** In the [[Manga]], Rin and Archer come across the aftermath of a {{spoiler|battle between Berserker and Caster at Ryudou Temple. Apparently Berserker avoided Assassin by not using the mountain gate, meaning he just ''ripped right through'' the mountain's anti-Servant barrier field. The battle itself left the Temple as kindling and the ground around it gouged with massive scars. And we get to see precisely none of this titanic conflict}}.
** In the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' movie, even though Archer and Shiro {{spoiler|use the [[Title Drop|titular Reality Marble]] a total of three times over the course of the film, we never hear neither Archer nor Shiro recite the complete chant, either version. Archer's version does appear in text form at the very beginning of the movie, but it just isn't the same}}.
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** {{spoiler|Gilgamesh}} gets one of these ''per route'', after juggling the [[Villain Ball]] for too long to notice he is about to get killed.
*** In ''Fate'', this is how he reacts when {{spoiler|Saber brushes off the blast from Ea and is about to cut him in half}}.
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]] - {{spoiler|Angra Mainyu as spawned by the Holy Grail}}
* [[One-Handed Zweihander]]: [[Played Straight|Played straight by Berserker]], whose 'sword' is more like a massive chunk of metal with a hilt. [[Averted]] by Saber and Assassin, who use their two hands.
▲* [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] - In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', you have to complete all three routes for the new splash screen. You can also accomplish every [[Have a Nice Death|Tiger Dojo]] for other bonuses.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] - Different even from [[Nasuverse]] vampires, in fact! They are not [[Tsukihime|Death Apostles]], but have enough similarities to warrant this [[Trope]].
** Rider has the [[Kiss of the Vampire]] and drinks blood to get stronger.
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*** In an early episode, Shirou introduces Tohsaka Rin with some narration; one of the accompanying images of her is an animated version of the final CG from ''Unlimited Blade Works''' [[Multiple Endings|True End]].
*** If you watch closely, most of the CGs from the ''Fate'' route appear in animated form in the anime as well. This is repeated with the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' route in the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' film.
* [[Signature Colors]]: Unless she's in school uniform or kimono, Rin Tohsaka is consistently shown in official art wearing red and black. Even her official bikini is red. (Some scenes in ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' show her wearing red and white, showing that her accent colour has changed over time.)
* [[Slasher Smile]] - A seemingly cheerful smile is Tohsaka's default sprite for her occasional rage against Shirou.
* [[Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship]]: Of course, Lancer will use his lance as a thrust weapon, but occasionally it will be used for slashing.
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* [[Spontaneous Weapon Creation]]: Archer can create weapons out of thin air. It's the same for {{spoiler|his past-self Shirou, who can "trace" various historical and mythological swords, creating inferior copies of them to use in battle}}.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] - {{spoiler|Shirou and Saber in the ''Fate'' route}}.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: The backstory suggests that the Holy Grail underwent this around [[World War
* [[Statistically Speaking]] - [[Averted]]: The stats of the Servants seem to have little, if any, bearing on their actual abilities. Archer is able to hold off Lancer despite being statistically inferior to him in practically every way, and {{spoiler|True Assassin and Gilgamesh}} get defeated by humans they should, by all accounts, outperform several times over. Although, this is due to the circumstances rather than them genuinely being weaker. Indeed, the only stats that ever seem to come into play are Saber's B-rank Luck and Magical Energy, which allow her to withstand Lancer's ''Gae Bolg'' attack, Archer's {{spoiler|Independent Action Rank B}} and Rider's {{spoiler|Eyes of Petrification}}. Of course, when you get down to brass tacks, the stats honestly ARE meaningless- the game is a [[Visual Novel]], not an RPG and the stats are only there to add flavour.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]
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** In the ''Heaven's Feel'' route, "Light and Darkness" (''Hikari to Yami'') plays during the last battle, between {{spoiler|Shirou and Kotomine}}. Or rather, ''half'' of the song plays at first, giving a tense techno beat while {{spoiler|Shirou's getting his ass kicked. It's only when [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|he reflects on]] [[The Power of Love|Sakura]] [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|and pulls off a frenzied counterattack]] that the second half of the song plays}}.
* [[There Can Be Only One]] - The very concept of the Grail War. {{spoiler|At least, that is what they want you to think, even if the actual goal of the Grail War is still something really different.}}
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: They pop up in the backstory as the Nazis sent in their [[Ghostapo|own "representatives"]] to the Holy Grail War at one point. Justified in that said war took place around the same time as [[World War
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - In two forms:
** [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: mostly [[Averted]], but spell-casting is pretty much done at the speed of plot. The notable exception is Caster who has an unfair [[Justified]] advantage, but sometimes the characters can even cast complex spells in less time than it takes for an already incoming blow to land.
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* [[Tragic Dream]]
* [[Translator Microbes]] - The Holy Grail acts as one. Pretty convenient considering a Servant can come from across time and from any culture around the globe.
* [[Troperiffic]] - ''
* [[Trope Overdosed]]
* [[Turn the Other Cheek]]
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** Not even an rumor about the war going on, even for things that couldn't be covered up or downplayed easily (sonic booms from attacks, shining golden light shooting into the sky at a flying horse, etc). [[Justified]] by a cover-up done by [[The Church]] and [[Magical Society|the Magical Association]], but we never see it in action during the [[Visual Novel]].
** [[Played for Laughs]] on a smaller scale, when Rin gets so angry at Shirou that she shatters her "perfect student/school idol" image in front of everyone to shout at him. Everybody stares... then go back to what they were doing, subconsciously repressing those memories to maintain their "perfect" image of her. This happens on ''two separate occasions''.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] - The scene in the Chinese restaurant in ''Heaven's Feel''. Only, [[Played Straight|it is played
* [[When It All Began]] - [[Fate/Zero|The last Holy Grail War]] affected the lives of ''every'' major character in the game.
* [[Witch Species]] - Magic in the [[Nasuverse]] is often genetically inherited through bloodlines. This isn't a hard-and-fast rule, though, as people from mundane families (like Shirou or [[Tsukihime|Ciel]]) can be born with magic circuits, and it's a plot point that one bloodline has slowly lost all of its power over generations. It's also possible to artificially create or increase magical potential.
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* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]
** Archer's plan in ''Unlimited Blade Works''. {{spoiler|His repeated gambits to kill Shirou and set up either himself and Rin or a Rin/Saber team as the winners of the Grail War by playing Caster, Kotomine and the protagonists against each other are truly inspired}}.
** Kotomine has a pretty good one in ''Heavens Feel''. {{spoiler:Start with sending Lancer to figure out who everyone is, where they are and how strong, as he did in the two other routes. Crap, after roflstomping True Assassin he got his heart pulled out and eaten. Ok, uh, well we still have Gilgamesh, and he's pissed about the serial killings going on. Damnit, he got eaten too. Fine, we'll set up Sakura, the monster eating everyone to turn into the gate and destroy the world. Uh oh, the Core of the Grail just got hijacked, time to team up with Shirou to recover it. Oops, True Assassin came after him and humans can't kill Servants with the tools he has. Guess we'll destroy Zouken's body, using my fake heart as a decoy and then drive off Assassin. Woops, my heart was beating due to Angra's energy and Sakura crushes the connection. I am running out of time, since my heart relied on Angra's mud to keep on beating. And, breaking the narration, he still makes it to the end of the path and still nearly unleashes a plan that is in fact much worse than the scale of what he was trying in the first two routes. Plus, Shirou's ideology has been neatly discarded, and Kotomine really hated it}}.
* [[Yandere]] - Ilya just loves Shiro to death. {{spoiler|She even kills him, [[And I Must Scream|or near]], in some [[Bad End|bad ends]].}}
* [[Yin-Yang Clash]]: Lancer's ultimate attack, since he uses Gáe Bolg, a cursed spear, to piece his opponent's heart without fail even ''before he even starts the attack''. In the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' route, he even ''throws'' his pear at Archer for even greater power. Archer reacts with Rho Aias, a legendary shield which no spear was ever to pierce. {{spoiler|Rho Aias succeeds blocking Gáe Bolg, unfortunately the shield was destroyed and consumed a huge chunk of Archer's power and cutting off one of his arms. Lancer was dumbfounded}}.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] - Many characters are like this. Surprisingly pointed out in Sakura's case, {{spoiler|but that's for a good reason}}. See the Characters Pages for more
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - Rin Tohsaka, Goddess of the Zettai Ryouiki. Rider also sports some Grade-A Zettai Ryouiki.
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